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قَذِيفَة
shell (artillery round) / projectile /qaˈðiː.fa/
nounB2#3753 most common
Also: missile, rocket, bomb (colloquial, in news usage)
Example sentences
هذه قَذِيفَة.
This is a shell.
سَقَطَت قَذِيفَة على المدينة.
A shell fell on the city.
أَطلَقَ الجُندِيّ قَذِيفَة من المِدفَع.
The soldier fired a shell from the cannon.
انفَجَرَت القَذِيفَة بالقُربِ من المُستَشفى وسَبَّبَت دَمارًا كَبيرًا.
The shell exploded near the hospital and caused great destruction.
تَسَبَّبَت القَذائِف الصاروخِيَّة في مَقتَلِ عَشَراتِ المَدَنِيّينَ خِلالَ الهُجومِ الأخير.
The rocket shells caused the deaths of dozens of civilians during the recent attack.
على الرَّغمِ من الهُدنَةِ المُعلَنَة، أَفادَتِ التَّقاريرُ بأنَّ قَذيفَةَ هاونٍ أَصابَت مَبنًى سَكَنِيًّا في الحَيِّ الشَّرقِيّ.
Despite the announced truce, reports indicated that a mortar shell struck a residential building in the eastern district.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قَذِيفَةٌ | قَذَائِفُ |
| Genitive | قَذِيفَةٍ | قَذَائِفَ |
| Accusative | قَذِيفَةً | قَذَائِفَ |
| Vocative | قَذِيفَةُ | قَذَائِفُ |
Word family
قَذَفَto throw, hurl, cast
قاذِفَةbomber (aircraft) or launcher
مَقذوفprojectile, thrown object
قَذْفthrowing; also the legal charge of slander
Etymology
قَذِيفَة comes from the Arabic triliteral root ق ذ ف (q-dh-f), which carries the core sense of throwing, hurling, or casting something forcefully. The pattern فعيلة turns the root into a noun for the thing acted upon, so قذيفة literally denotes an object that has been hurled. Its modern military sense (artillery shell, missile, rocket) is a natural extension of that older meaning into weaponry.
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